it's interesting how they don't capitalize "sir" quite odd, still don't
understand that, if that is his alternate name.
I wonder if they are going to make the smokey effect with dry ice,
I'd hate to be in a room that smokey, thank goodness places aren't
like that anymore, unless it is someones house, I once did a smoking
survey, quite interesting.
Only thing is "sir" could be anyone since you never see his face, then
again, it could be a woman and they just call her sir and no one knows
that he is really a she....
could be all sorts of things written into that one.

he is refered to as "Sir" after the children are not told his name and they have nothing else to call him.
How they work in the Saw mill is quite far fetched because a Saw Mill
can be quite dangerous, especially for young children. I wonder why the
author chose a Saw Mill.???(Book #4)

in Arva just north of London, Ontario, you can actually see the
flour being milled, on exiting there is a old sign that gives the
condiitions of workers a long time ago, if we had to comply with
the rules in those days today, it would probably cost US to work,
instead of getting paid to work, you'd probably have to pay to work.
What an odd world that would be, to have to pay out to have a JOB.
Actually sometimes it almost seems like that for some jobs, the cost of
transportation to get to the job, the shoes you pay for, clothes etc.etc.
True, I guess the worse kind of mill for children would be a saw mill.